[1NCU8U5]

A friend of mine got his ABC converted in 89% ile..
Effective it means u dnt need to study at all ....
Congrats !!!

[Pankaj_Vats]

if a ST candidate get a %ile say 99% and got admission in normal procedure too. whether he wud be counted towards the ST quota or not. Any idea....

pankaj

[srikrishnan]

Originally Posted by Pankaj_Vats

if a ST candidate get a %ile say 99% and got admission in normal procedure too. whether he wud be counted towards the ST quota or not. Any idea....

pankaj

i dont think so. i think it'll be in the open competition category.

[rajatb]

Originally Posted by srikrishnan

i dont think so. i think it'll be in the open competition category.

Nopes once you have applied in a particular category you will be counted as part of that only...
Some more food for thought ...

http://cities.expressindia.com/fulls...?newsid=141514

At IIM-L, general students fill reserved seats
Sreejiraj Eluvangal
Lucknow, July 29: The Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow (IIM-L) has filled 13 seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and physically challenged candidates with students from the ‘‘general’’ category for the MBA programme this year.

According to sources, other IIMs, especially the ones at the lower-end of B-school list, have also had to resort to such ‘‘pooling back’’, allegedly due lack of qualified students from the reserved categories.


‘‘What else could we do, leave the seats empty?’’ asked an official involved in the admissions this year at IIM-L, adding, ‘‘we sent out offers to join to all the candidates from these communities who managed the minimum marks in the Common Admission Test.’’

At IIM-L for example, only 35 students belonging to the SC category have been admitted this year. According to the guidelines issued by the Centre, 15 per cent of the seats must be reserved for them. With the total number of new students touching 255 this year, the number of SC students should be 38.

The situation is worse for the other two reserved categories. Against a requirment of 19 ST students, only 13 have been admitted. Among the physically challenged too, the IIM has only half the candidates required by the guidelines — 4 against 8. The institute’s director, Dr Devi Singh, did not confirm or deny the figures. ‘‘I do not know the exact situation right now... but I will find out the numbers,’’ he promised.

It’s not just IIM-L. IIM-Kozhikode also fell short by around five students in the reserved categories. The institute’s director, Dr Krishna Kumar, felt that it was better not to admit ‘‘undeserving students’’ than to let candidates in just for the sake of making up the numbers. ‘‘If we cannot manage to get qualified people even after lowering the bar on their scores, that does not mean we can go all the way down to zero,’’ he said.

The situation has left Dalit rights activists fuming. ‘‘Not only is this unethical, but also completely unconstitutional,’’ said Kancha Ilaiah, ‘‘and this calls for a petition at the SC-ST Commission.’’ The lack of transperancy has added to the ire. ‘‘What do you mean by saying you tried to relax the requirements, but still could not manage to find 300 SC and ST students. You are not even telling us how many students from these backgrounds applied, what were their scores, what was the extent of the concessions extended to them,’’ he sasaid.

[monaer jaanla]

Well, mind blowing info.
Thanks.
Unbelievable, I never thought people can be so cooperating.
Pagal Guy is the best site on earth.

[monaer jaanla]

today I heard that IIM-C and IIM-A doesn't care about being an ST student. They r still required to get 95+ percentile.

Also is there any slacking of constraints in the GD PI for ST students. Knowledgable guys, Please throw some light..

[egalitare]

here in IIMA i can say that there wud b some category guys with percentiles even lower than 95....

[MSD]

Hi

I can tell u that ppl who have anywhere between 92% to even 85-75 and lowest 65 % also do get in...ti is authentic

[ankitgoel10]

Although being from the General Category, I would like to throw some light on the confusion happening here.... its like...people generally tend to confuse btw ST and SC...

for SC ppl, compettion is tougher than STs....
though i am not aware of the exact figure for SCs but my close friend who belongs to ST got 2 calls L and K at 76 %ile... AND e actually converted L...*though in W/L"

and AFAIR, there was a case where an SC scored 96 or maybe 98 %ile, he was literally screwed (emotionaly) in the interview (about his inability) but was taken... so if u can score anything above 90 ile be it SC or ST, ....man....Ahmedabad is waiting for u....

[vivek_123]

Could you please update the cut-offs once again